LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1757, 30 June 1888, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Bail.'-A .grand ball is to be hell at Woodbury on Friday evening next.

Diphtheria.—lt is said that at the present lime there are 200 cases of diphtheria in Lyttelton. Poisoned Wheat.—Th« Levels Eoad Board is now supplying poisoned wheat to ratepayers free of charge. Monthly Sale at Gbbaldinb. —Messr* J. Mundell and Co. publish entries for their monthly sale of slock at Garaldine on Wednesday next. Railway Ketdrns.-—During the fourweekly period ending May 26$h the receiptfrom the Gevernmunt railways in the colony amounted to £88,603, and the expenditure tu £49,907. iiXEORT OF HoBSES. —The steamor Wairarapu, which left] Lyttelton on Tuesday for Melbourne, took fifteen fine draught horses. The Hauroto, which euilad oj Saturday, took twenty-one of the same description. The Hon. J. Bbycb.—The Hon. John Bryce is to be banquatted at Wangnnui tonisht, and presented with a library of 400 volumes. It is expected that, twenty members of Pailiament will attend the banquet. Notice to Sheepowners.—Returns of sheep owned on the 31st May must be sent in not later than to-day. After today section 21 ohthe Sheep Act, 1878, will be atria ly enforced. Wesleyan Church, Temu.;a.—ln our advertising columns will be found tha subjects of the addresses at the morning and evening seryices at the Wealeyan Church, Temuka, tormorrow.

Allleqed Remedy for V v hoopinq Cojnjh.—A Norweigan physician claims that whooping cough can be readily cured, even in.one night, by causing the patient to sleep in a room in which sulphur has ben burned.

ROOKB.—At the last mdeting of the Canterbury Acclimatisation Society, Christchurch, -v letter was read from Mr C. Q, Tripp, Oran Gorge Station, asking the Society to forward hiii a number of rooks. The Secretary was instructed to try and comply with the request.

Obicket. —The match between the Aus-t-slians and a. Yorkshire Elaven concluded on Wednesday in a draw. The scores were : Australians? First inning, 367» Yorkshire: First inning*, 228 j second innipgs, for loss of 7 Jvicke's, 314. The match was witnessed bv a very large number of spectators. A Bake Dbfaultbb. —Porter, the bank clerk who absconded from Cambridge with Ihe bink revolver and cartridge*, and £l2) sborf in his accounts, was a married man, h.a wife living at Napi«H, lie kept his niarrUge a secror, owing to the bank rules, and in Cambridge was looked upon as an eligible bachelor, and by reports current had trifl.il with the affections of mora than one lftdy there.

Sudden Death.—Edward Burt, aged 19, ellesi son of Captain Wray, R,M., Tuiuru, died Hiiddan,y on Thursd.y night from failure of the heart.

A Boll.—A palp*ble bull was committed by Mr Levestam in the House of Represent*tives on Thursday afternoon. Speaking to ihe distillation question, he oonvu'sod the House by emphatically declaring that whiskey brewed in New Zenland a few years ago was the finest imported into the colony. Sales at Geraldine.—Messrs Webster and Micdona'd ndvertise "Dtrieß for sale ef stock at Geraldioo on Wednesday next. On the same date, after the Hale of stock, they will offer Ihe farm recently occupied by the late Mr H. Campbell, five miles from Geraldine, consisting of 194 acres. BiwmNa Short.—An English print is responsible for spying that the : inbilee plunger, Mr E. -BenzoD, who is not unknown in lh« colonies, has spent the greater pirt of £250,000 he commenced last year with. He is remarkably fond of gambling, and has been known to lose as much as £14,000 at baccart a single sitting. St. Savioub's Church, Temuka, and St. John's, Wihohbstbb.—To-morrow the Rev. J. Chaffers-Welsh will offioiaU at St. Saviour's at 11 a.m., and at St. John s at 6.30 p.m. la the afternoon he will conduct a children's service at St. Baviour's. As the rev. gentleman lauvas for England ;i!inoit immediately, thin will probably be the l«st opportunity his old friends will have of hearing him preach. The Rev. T. A. Hamilton has exohangad duties with him for the day. Personal.—The Rev. Q. Barclay, who for the past nine weeks has been completely invalided by a severe attack of rheumatism, is now in a fair way to convalescence. On Wednesday last be was able, with assistance, to leave his room for the first tine, and the day being particularly brght he was taken for a short drive. air Barclay's enforced absence from his usual duties has bean very much felt, and his many friends are pleased to sea him getting about onoo more.

Measures to IB Passed. —lt is believed ! that the Uovornmeot iutend to proceed will) the following Bills this session: ] E'air Kent Bill, Native Bills, Lind Bill, Grown and Native Lands Rating Act Repeal Bill, Railways Bill, Regulation of Local Elections Bill, and if possible the Municipal Oorporationsßill, while (hoy also desire to get the Slectorel Bill through itß second reading. It is understood that the rules of procedure will not be pressed this seNsioo. Labor Settlements. The Parli-i----ni"niary correspondent of the Duoedin Star says :—Major Ste void, who is one of the mast pcracvuriog men in tlin House, is evidently dishclioed lo allow his pet schemu f.»r the formation of labor sottloinouts to fall to th'< ground, for, not withstandiug the two uio l ions on the subject that recently lapsed, li<j has notified hi* intention of moving for ;in allocation of £50,000 of the unallowed sum (70,090) in the schedule to tho Loao Act with a view to purchasing land for the formation of labor settlements in districts whore there in no Crown lan 1 available for the purpose. A deputation, hnadud by the member for Waimate, waited ou tho Minister for Lands on the qiuotioi early in the session.

Alleged Wholk3»le Bhbe]?-stbaling. It appears that a well-organised system of sheep-stealing has far some lime been in progress in the Northern district, and the police seera to think that thry are upon the track of the offenders. Several firmer* it is said have been losing shpep by the hundred in a year. The sheep stolen have usually baen the best, and those fattened up for freezing. Tt is probable that further arrests rmy be made. Some further lots of sheep have been recovered, besides those mentioned in connection with the Kyrrison oases. Oris sheep farum* states that at least 1500 sheep have disappeared from various farms. The she«powners are up in arms, and some of them are mounting guard for an offender who is stll at Urge.—Press.

Thb Pbo*oskd Tax on Baohblor.—ln enquiring whether Government would consider thfl advisability of imposing a tax on bachelors, Mr Bruce, who 18 yet unmarried, on Thursday afternoon expressed the opinion that bachelors lived in a state of luxury, and therefore ought to be taxed. The Premier dissents from this view, and speaking with the authority of a benedict of long standing, he gave it as his opinion that instead of a bachelor's life being one of luxury, it was more like leading a life of wickedness, and ought to be made penal. Government, he addvd, had no intention of raising further taxation at the present time, but should the necessity arise next session the wrongs of leading a baohelor life would receive consideration. Dr Fi'chett raised a liugh by suggesting that, in the event of a Bachelors' Bill being introduced, u clause should be inserted exempting those who had been, or were, engiged at the time.

A Tkioi Of Trade, —A curiosity of the Loudon boot trade came out in the course of the meeting of the City Board of GutrdLina recently. It was stuted that the boots supplied lo the children of the central district school only cost 6d a pair new, but if sent to the same contractors who originally supplied them to be repaired a charge of, Is 8d par pair was made. Naturaliy the committee of the schools have orde'ed that in fu ure the bo')ta shall not be repaired, but that new ones shall be furnished when necessary. The revelation has afforded food for refaction as lo what wages the workman of thes') contractors receive, especially now that ilia evils of the sweating season are becoming generally known, Ni»ht Prowlers.—We find it is once mote necHSßaiy to warm our readers against the practice of leaving their c'othes, after washing, bunging on the drying lines all night. Doubtless it is troublesome to have to take in clothes of an evening w'len the same are not dry, but by doing so they may save themselves considerable loss, A case in point, which occurred in Temuka. recently, has been brought uuder our notice, Shoitly before 10 o'c'ock one evening a lady happeniug to look over the clothes lines before the family retired to rest noticed that thera were ssvetal "gaps" on one of them. The clothes weie at ooce gathered in, and s>n a ,f count out'' being made next morning it was found that a number of articles of ladies' underclothing had been stolm. This, we bslievp, is not at all an isolated case, and the thieves in almost every case exercise great discretion in the articles thby select. gjaveral pases similar to the above occurred, here la»t year, and a case was recently brought under our notice in Tmiaru where the thieves took nothing but children's clothing, though more valuab'e articles were hanging on the same line. It is to ba hoped that housekeepers will take the hint, and take their clothes in of an evening, thereby saving lhemclveß from loss, and removing one form of temptation from the way of those persons who do not understand the difference between meum and tuwn.

Babbit Extebmination.—The Government received a cable message on Thursday uight from Mr Bell, the New Zealand representative ut the Sydney Rabbit Conference, slating that much difficulty had been experienced in getting M. Pasteur's agents to consent to such trials es the Conference deemed essential to test the value of the method. Thev were hampered with strict injunctions from M. Pasteur as to the tests which t.hey should submit to; but at the last moment these difficulties were satisfactorily overcome, and it is understood that the non-infectious-ness of the chicken cholera has, in the case of rabbits, been fai.-ly established. Lijtk in Cobsioa. —Life in Corsica seems t > be quite as dramatic in reality as in fiction. Lately, at Ajacoio, the revelry of a wedding , dance was broken in on by the entry of gendarmes. The offioers then and there arrested one of the young ladies, who with great prompilude drew a revolver and made ready for self defence. A ball from a policeman's carbine, however, rendered the fair danseuse incapable either of waltaing or pistol practice, while close examination showed the fair damsel to be a noted bandit—one CamtUo Nioolai—in petticoat disguise. It seems a little hard that a gentleman should have to take his pleasures in feminine attire, but the faot speaks volumes for his skill and grace. What the emotions of M. Nicolai'a partners were on the discovery is not told; probably they were under no delusions, as Corsica is familiar with these little pretences. Afthb Maky Yjubs.—Four French soldiers who were taken prisoners in the war, and who were subsequently senfcanoed te a long term of confinement in a French gaol for assaulting the Prussian soldiers in charge of them, were iaoluded in the amnesty recently signed by the Emperor Frederick, and have returned to their own country. Thoy were allowed no communication with the outar world during their detention, and their families, unaware of the eireumstsnoes in which they were placed, naturally concluded that they were dead. A pleasant surprise was in store for one of the party. He found the child with whom his wife was about to present him when he was summoned from home, and whose faoe he never saw, a strapping lad of 18, and übout to bt married, But one of his comrades has to faoe the peculiarly unpleasant domestic complication which the Uureace has treated in his poem of " Enock Arden." His wife remarried some years ago, and is the mother of a large family by her second husband.

Football.—ln the football match against Maryborough (Victoria) on Wednesday the Englishmen were defeated by four goals to three. —A match played is Timaru on Thursday between the Oamaru and Timaru Football Clubs resulted in a draw, the visitors having the bust of the game.—A telegram from Auckland says 4—" Whilesides' football career has ome to an end. It appears the mishap that befell him in the first matck against, the Englishmen has proved to be much worse than was anticipated, and Whitesided hus been advised to abandon playing, unless he wishes to cripple hjmself for life. Doubtliss Whitesides' unfeesoM retirement will cause regret throughout m$ colony."— The Wellington City Council baise adopted the recommendation from iht> eanynittee to refuse the Basin Reserve for fche English, Native, and Auckhnd fsjsjOball teams. It is doubtful bow if the English team will play at Wellington on their return, as they object to Newton Park. —The match which was to have been played at Temuka last Thursday between the Timaru Pirates and the Temuka Clubs, was postponed, owing to the inability of the Pirates to send out a team.

The Arowhenoa Fences.— Yesterday the vexed question of the removal of the fences from the roads in the Arowhanua Town District was practically settled. Some few weeks dgo it was notified by advertisement that all fence* erected upon roads must be removed, but this intimation with one or two exceptions was ignored. The Board, however, being of opinion that their action in the matter was perfectly justifiable, instructed their Overseer to cause the fences to be removed with as little delay as possible. It was thought that any attempt to remove the fences, many of which have been standing for some time, would be met with considerable opposition, but this can hardly be said to have been the case. Accompanied by a man engaged for the occasion, Mr (iaze, the Overseer, proceeded to the township yesterday, and commencing at its eastern end caused all the fenced roads to be opened. To the astonishment of many, in no instance was there any actual opposition. In the majority of cases the sutt'ers at once proceeded to remove the fences, but in one or two instances the destruction of the fences was preceded by a parley, in which the bystanders took a large part. Of course there were high words occasiooaMy, and ramaiks far from complimentary to the member* of the Arowhenua Town Board were made, but the few unemployed who followed the Overseer and his satellite around in the expectation of » “ shindy,” were disappointed. It ia said that in one instance, at least, there is likely to be a lawsuit over the matter, but it is to be hoped that any differences between the Board and the settlers may be amicably adjusted. Woman’s Wiidnm, "She insist* that it is more important that her family shall be kept in full health, than that she should have all the fashionable dresses and styles of the limes. She therefore sees to it that each member of her family is supplied with enough of Dr Soule’s American Hop Bitter* at the first appearance of any symptoms of ill health, to prevent a fit of sickness with its attendant expense, care and anxiety. Ail women should exercise! their wisdom in this way.”—Now Haven Palladia e. Baxtbb’s Ltrun Pebsbbvbe has gained great popularity in this district as a speedy and effectual remedy m the treatment of Coughs, Coins, Beonohitis, and other chest and throat complaints. Bead adrt. and try it. SYNOPSIS OF ADVERTISEMENTS. Grand Ball—At Woodbury on Friday evening. Wesleyan Church, Temuka—Services for to-morrow, Smithson, Raymond, and Smith—Bankruptcy notice re W. Lawson, of Geraldine, butcher.

St. Saviour's Ohurob, Temuka, and St. John's, Winchester Notice re servioes to-morrow.

J. Mundell and Co., Auctioneers, Geraldine ~- Publish entries for monthly stock sale at Geraldine on July 4th. Mrs George Dyson, Railway Terraos, Temuka—Notifies I hat she is prepared to nurse ladies in town or country. A. It. Allan, General Storekeeper, Temuka —Notifies that he is now offering a large stock of groceries, ironmongery, and crockeryware at unheard-of prices; gives a nujiber of quotations. Webster and Macdonild, Auctioneers, Geraldine —Advertise particulars for montLly sals at Geraldine on Wednesday j sell firstclass farm, 5 mil.-s from Geraldine, after slock sale; pub ish addition to sale on account of Angus Macdonald, Esq. j